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Facebook has made it easy to watch a church service, wedding, graduation, baptism or other family event with their Facebook Live feature.

If you can use Facebook, you can both create the video feed and watch it. Since many seniors rely on Facebook to stay in contact with family and friends they should be able to find the video feed.

Note: This column began in early July after a friend asked about live streaming her wedding later in the month. Just a week later, Facebook Live proved itself not only as a way to share family moments, but as a force of society when Diamond Reynolds streamed from the car moments after her boyfriend Philando Castile was shot.

Starting a Facebook Live broadcast is easy. Just aim the camera of your phone at the scene and touch the new post area, the one that says “What’s on your mind?”

Note: Facebook Help on Live BroadcastsRight below your name is the options to send the video to your friends or to the public. For a church service or a wedding, send it to public.

It must have been sometime in 1999. My wife was working a few hours at her job with a network equipment manufacturer on a Saturday in San Leandro. Our nine year old son and I dropped her off, then went to look for something to do while she worked.

I'd ridden my bike past the museum many times, but never stopped in. I explained to my son who Amelia Earhart was as we looked at an Electra aircraft similar to the one Earhart flew when she departed on her fateful flight from Oakland in 1937. Oddly, I do not see that aircraft on their current list of aircraft on display.

Update 7-27-2016: The museum director responded to my email and told me the Electra is now at the nearby H…

Five years ago when the nation was noting the 150th Anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run, or First Battle of Manassas, I wrote a speculative piece thinking about what tech a survivor of the battle might have seen in his lifetime.

It took a firestorm to learn something about how many people use Evernote.

Three weeks ago Evernote announced changes to their service tiers. The Premium price went up, and the Free Basic level was restricted to two logged in devices at one time.

Those changes set off a firestorm on Evernote's Forum filling 139 pages in three weeks with complaints, recriminations and threats to move elsewhere.

A common pronouncement among the dissatisfied was "I am an active user of Evernote. I've created 3000 notes in five years!"They expect Evernote corporate to be impressed by their spirited use of Evernote. Instead, they underwhelmed me with their Notes per Month rate.

I am probably not the typical user. I have 24,000 notes accumulated over eight years. That is 3,000 notes a year, or 250 a month.

So anyone accumulating 3000 in 5 years is only doing 50 notes a month.

I'm going to assume most of these people pay their bills online. Where are they putting their receipts?

You wake up one morning to find an ominous message on your PC. All your files are now encrypted, it says, and you are forbidden access to them unless you pay thousands of dollars.

This nightmare has crippled hospitals, businesses and individuals. It is called ransomware, and the FBI reports it is on the rise.

It used to be that trying to fool you into giving up information, so someone could steal your identity was the No. 1 goal of online crooks. Now it is ransomware.

This column is to help your director of family IT keep all your PCs and devices safe.

While the likelihood of someone encrypting your PC is relatively low, it is painless for the perpetrator and could cost you thousands of dollars if you choose to pay the ransom.

A user is tricked into installing a piece of malware on their PC. The malware runs in the background and encrypts your files using a strong encryption algorithm. It then posts a message instructing you to send money via Bitcoin within a short period to get a decrypt…

Perspective :(created this for myself earlier) Premium $70 a year is $5.83 a month $70 a year is $1.34 a week $70 a year is 20 cents a day. Plus $35 a year is $2.92 a month $35 a year is 68 cents a week $35 a year is 10 cents a day How hard will it be to move your notes to a new system, and learn that system?
What is my time worth?